Tex. Nat. Res. Code § 88.092 · Subchapter D. INSPECTION AND EXAMINATION OF OIL PROPERTY
PROHIBITED INTERFERENCE WITH ACCESS AND INSPECTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
No person may:
(1) refuse to permit the governmental agency, or an agent, servant, representative, or employee of the governmental agency, to have access to an oil property for inspection and examination;
(2) interfere with the inspection and examination;
(3) remove, tamper with, mutilate, or destroy a device, seal, or meter on an oil property placed there or used in the inspection and examination; or
(4) refuse to permit the governmental agency, or an agent, servant, representative, or employee of the governmental agency, to have access, for inspection, examination, and audit, to the books, documents, and records pertaining to, used in connection with, or required to be used in connection with an oil property.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2549, ch. 871, art. I, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1977.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/NR/htm/NR.88.htm
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